Mastery: Why people like to get better at stuff May 28, 2010

Mastery seems to be a basic need. Each human being sooner or later likes to succeed in something: either it is one of the most useless and stupid record from the Guinness book or just a karaoke singing, obviously people just  like to get better at stuff! The point is that mostly they do not gain anything from it, and possibly nobody will even ever hear about their mastery or pay for that… And yet, people do it. Why?

The interesting answer I found in the video I posted earlier was: “getting better is satisfying”. Yes! As simple as that.

Speaking in term of yoga knowledge, I find the correlation between the Mastery and Satisfaction very interesting, because these two are inborn qualified from the two “neighbouring” chakras: Nabhi and Void (both in the stomach area of the body). Normally responsible for different qualities – Nabhi for satisfaction, Void -for Mastery, in this very case they came up as interconnected and there is  probably even a deeper meaning of this combination… something like that: if you feel unsatisfied in life, try to master something, and more contentment will come to you!

LOVE, axinia

Do you know your mission? (Poll) July 27, 2009

What is “a mission”? Not sure about the correct English term (in German I would call it Berufung, in Russian – призвание). In my understanding a mission is an occupation in which one can apply his/her talents at the most and thus serve the humanity.

Some people say it makes life so much easier if you know your mission.

I know people who know their mission but suffer from limited possibilities to fulfil it.

I know people with plenty of possibilities and no clue about their mission…

Where is the truth?

Let’s try to figure it out:

Tag: all my jobs January 18, 2009

 image by axinia

Nowadays it has become quite normal to change jobs often and to try many things out. Especially while studying young people take to all possible opportunities to earn some money or to get some additional qualification.

I just thought of making a funny tag on all the jobs I have ever done in my life. It is amazing, how life often plays with us and makes us do things we would never expect from ourselves…

So, this is my personal listing (chronologically, from the beginning of my adult life):

1. photo-model
2. teacher of English
3. translator
4. cleaning lady
5. au pair girl
6. cosmetician /make up artist
7. kindergarten educator
8. extra (in theater and films)
9. journalist
10. decorator
11. event manager
12. teacher of German
13. trainer for intercultural communication
14. interpreter for NATO
15. assistant to director (in oil trading)
16. key account manager (sales  in media)
17. human resources manager (in wealth management)

These are all I could remember, because obviously I did not put everything on my CV 🙂 It was fun to do every single job and meet interesting people from all these fields.